Note: Please prepare the elements (bread and beverage) prior to beginning the procedure.

• Prepare broken bread, broken crackers, or communion wafers

• Prepare small quantity of grape juice in individual glasses or cups

 

PURPOSE:  (Explain the purpose) Holy Communion or "The Lord's Supper"  is a way Christians celebrate or commemorate our intimate connection to, and identification with, Jesus Christ and our ongoing relationship with Him.

 

The ELEMENTS: (Explain the elements) The communion elements (the bread and beverage) represent His body which was broken for us, and His blood which was shed for the remission of our sins.

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PROCEEDURE: 

• Reading of Scripture:​​ (1 Corinthians 11:23-30)

  • ​23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. 27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

• Silent meditation and self examination.
• ​Pass out the bread 
• Leader:  "...the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."

• Have everyone hold up the bread. Leader offers prayer over the bread then instruct members to partake: ("You may partake") 

• Pass out the beverage

• Leader: "After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me."

• Have everyone hold up the cup. Leader offers prayer over the beverage and instruct members to partake: ("You may partake") 

• Read verse 26: For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

• This concludes the Lord's Supper.

  • Suggestion: Say a prayer, sing a hymn and close. (Matthew 26: 29,30):